Plan

Two floors of cameras and audio gear moved around overhead by conveyor bins. The staff know the equipment and will talk you out of the wrong purchase.

Sun 10am to 6pm. Mon to Thu 9:30am to 7pm. Fri 9:30am to 1pm. Closed Saturday

Four blocks of lawn and benches running north from 33rd Street between the Hudson Boulevards, planted for pollinators and mostly empty on a weekday afternoon.

Daily, 6am to 11pm

Good espresso and a chocolate chip cookie that comes out of the oven in the afternoon. Counter seating and not much of it.

Mon to Fri, 7am to 7pm. Weekends, 8am to 6pm

Churchill's clay pipe hangs from the ceiling with about ninety thousand others. Skip the dining side and eat the mutton chop or the pub burger at the bar.

Daily from 11:30am. Bar menu all afternoon

Up a flight of stairs on West 38th to a thin square pie cut into rectangles, sold by the slab. Half the tables are people from the buildings around it on their lunch hour.

Mon to Fri, 11:30am to 9pm. Sat, noon to 10pm. Sun, noon to 8pm

Three floors of bolts stacked to the ceiling in a Garment District loft, sold by the yard to anyone who walks in. The staff cut for working designers all day and will still measure two yards for you.

Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm. Sat, 10am to 5pm. Closed Sunday

Free to walk into. The Polonsky exhibition holds a Gutenberg Bible and Jefferson's own copy of the Declaration, and the marble staircase justifies the stop by itself.

Mon to Sat, 10am to 6pm (Thursday to 8pm). Sun, 1pm to 5pm

Plays and scripts floor to ceiling, with a coffee counter and tables you are allowed to sit at. Lin-Manuel Miranda backed the 2021 move to this address.

Mon to Sat, 11am to 7pm. Sun, noon to 6pm

Puglian cooking in a narrow storefront near the Port Authority. Orecchiette and a glass of Negroamaro, and the check stays sane.

Daily, 11:30am to midnight

A full Greek diner menu two blocks from Hammerstein. Take a booth and nobody hurries you once the plates are cleared.

Daily, 6am to 11:30pm. Older listings still claim 24 hours